Infamous: Cat Story

June 24th, 2007

My cat, Oyster, likes to get inside any room if the door is closed. Either the front door, the attic door, the basement door, the bathroom door - he doesn’t care. If the door is closed, he wants to know why.

So, when he went missing for about 24 hours, I figured that he had escaped outside. I called for him all around the yard, I put out catnip, I waited and waited. I also called his name around the attic, the basement, and under all the couches. I couldn’t find the little guy!

Finally, one of my roomates came home and I asked him if he had seen oyster. He responded, “Yeah, I just let him out of the basement.” I ran downstairs to see my cat looking like a disaster and he was shaking all of his paws and licking them. There was some gook all over him, he was trying to lick off.

Well, there used to be a mice problem in the basement and my roomate had put glue traps down there and never took them out. Oyster had gotten himself in all of the glue traps and was one big gluey mess!

His paws were the worst, but he managed to get it all over himself. He kept shaking his legs and licking to try to get it off. He looked so sad and distressed. Yet at the same time it was hilarious.

SO after a quick google search, I grab some vegetable oil and drench him in it. Amazingly enough he sat very still in my lap while I soaked him with the oil and tried to pull off the glue. Really I was drenching more of it on myself but oh well. I was mainly concerned about him licking the glue and getting sick or poisoned.

But after a couple days he was looking a bit better. Most of the glue had come off and he didn’t get sick at all. He kept shaking his paws for a while though. And now he stays out of the darn basement!

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